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corn flour

cornflour \corn"flour`\, corn flour \corn" flour`\n. a flour or starch prepared from the grains of corn; it is used in cooking as a thickener.

Syn: cornstarch.

Usage examples of "corn flour".

Moreover, a friendly Indian could eat us out of house and home, and we were shy of meat and corn flour.

He had chopped wood as a kid in Minnesota, bartering his labor to the neighbors for a few eggs, a sack of corn flour, or a ham.

Goat stew, reflected Nylan, probably meant goat meat, wild onions, and a few other unmentionable or unidentifiable plant-root supplements, all thickened with some of the corn flour.

But as he was handing the sack of corn flour to the customer, less about a quarter of its weight in goosefodder, Alvin scoops up a fine fat gosling and hands it to the customer right along with the grain.

Deer did not take his eyes from New Moon as Fox passed among them and gave each one his ration of corn flour.

It consisted of peanuts, corn flour, salt, and seasonings and was said to taste like beef.

He'll have two cases of corn flour, but officially it's only one case.

Her kitchen smelled like chiles and corn flour, fried eggs and jack cheese.